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[CLKD]

  ………. my Mum played the organ in Church when she was growing up …… I feel a Toccata coming on 

[dulciana]

That's interesting, CLKD!  Who else plays what?   

[Joyce]

I was recorder. Still got it somewhere. Hated it.

[dulciana]

I don't know how, but I managed to miss recorder, Cubagirl.  Never really liked the sound of it, although like all things, great if done by an expert! 

[Joyce]

I was promoted to treble, which had a nicer tone, but they were school ones. After every use disinfected  I know they needed disinfected, but my mum refused to buy me one. She bought me a nice wooden descant Schott's to start me off though.

[CLKD]

I don't think we disinfected ours  - maybe the mouth piece got dunked in a solution occasionally 

[Hurdity]

I can play various instruments but nothing very well unfortunately! I also sing (using the natural untrained voice)

Hurdity x

[minkusmum]

I had a musically gifted teacher at primary school who started a recorder group, but not just a bunch of descants. My parents bought me a tenor recorder, which I loved and we used to play quite complicated pieces (for under 12s). Sadly, the school then offered violin lessons, which I took up. That was me stuck for the next six years playing an instrument I never loved. How I wish I had chosen the piano, like my brother! Pianos are so much more sociable.

[CLKD]

Our Primary School had the 1st recorder band in the country  …….. a violin is more portable than a piano though 

[Joyce]

Our daughter learned violin and later viola. She was invited to join local school's  orchestra and went for lessons for that every Saturday morning in an old school. School is now a pub and under used shopping mall.  I used to hate listening to her practice. She  gave up at about 16 as she needed to concentrate on her main school work.

[Hattie]

Years ago we lived for ten months in Cardiff near an area called Splott - Shirley Bassey country as near Tiger Bay Sunday mornings we used to see the Splott Kazoo Band go by all made up of children. Dressed in uniform, a girl marching at the front with another girl at the rear on the big bass drum.
They used to do all sorts of tunes - it just seemed like a fun way to maybe introduce children to more music - also the kazoo is a cheap instrument.

[dulciana]

I've got memories of hearing our school bagpipe chanter class practising.   It was the nearest I ever came to hearing a flock of ducks at school!!

[CLKD]

   ………… 

Dad hated bagpipes.  He took us as a family to Plockton - we stayed in a Hotel it was regatta weekend.  At 11.30 p.m. someone stood outside the Hotel playing the bagpipes - apparently Dad was fast asleep the rest of us were waiting for him to leap out of bed, throw open the window and yell 

So Plockton + bagpipes = 

[Joyce]

Oh I love the sound of the pipes. Though when my brother remarried there was a piper piping us all in to hotel at around 2.30pm. Didn't go down well with pilot who was trying to sleep after a long haul flight.

[dulciana]

I bet, CLKD!